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Ayyy glad someone else appreciates The Wailing! Everything you said is totally true, Granzon. It's a masterpiece. The build up is just... I don't know, I feel like it was paced so perfectly that is did allow for you to continually be guessing how this movie goes literally the entire time. And then the payoff for all of that is totally worth all of the tension, because you never feel cheated, you never feel jerked around unfairly. You just have a wonderfully done movie.

Like I said, it's my favorite movie I've watched so far. So I implore everyone to check it out! If you're a horror movie fan, you owe it to yourself to watch it when you have 2.5 hours to sit down and do so. My girlfriend wants to watch it with me and I told her "I need a month or so before I watch this again." But I'm excited to see stuff that I may have missed, knowing how the movie goes this time.

So anyway, we're going to stop talking about ART and talk about a schlocky slasher.

DAY 16.2: Sleepaway Camp
On Peacock

I have never actually seen the entirety of Sleepaway Camp. I don't know why, but I never actually saw the whole thing. And it was so long ago that I barely remembered the majority of it. But you know? I think it does some stuff well.

Sleepaway Camp opens with a child and her father being murdered in a horrible boating accident. Skip forward some time and the child who survived ends up going to a camp with her protective cousin! But then, you know, murder starts to happen. You get it.

In many ways, this is a standard slasher flick. I think it does some creative and grisly stuff with it too. It doesn't just rely on standard slasher fare. It does some clever stuff. And it does a good job building up the kills. Because when this movie gets to its final act? Holy hell all of those murders are increasingly more horrific and brutal until the very end.

And yes, if you've heard anything about Sleepaway Camp, it's probably that the ending is next level terrifying. It's honestly a movie that might be pretty forgettable if it didn't have such a strong last act and, more importantly, such a traumatizing last minute. It's a completely special movie entirely because when you get there... everything goes so fast and you're just mouth agape in terror as you take in this image. If you've never seen it, don't spoil yourself. Just go and watch.

The acting is bad, yeah. But we have a fun movie here still as far as slashers go. The strong last act is what carries it to being something that stands out though.

Rating: 7.5/10

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